This came into my mind recently: When viewed from the sky, the sprawling neighborhoods that make Los Angeles are a series of small grids, linked by freeways and divided by boulevards into larger grids. When you fly into Los Angeles at night, it's like looking at a circuit board, traffic flowing...

The radiation in the air is also spread out over time, and not administered at once as the x-ray machines are. From a physiological stand point, the same amount of radiation, spread out over time (as in the air) is far safer than that same amount of radiation over the course of a few seconds.
It is said that they amount of radiation is comparable to what you get while at the dentists office. At my dentist visits, they cover the rest of my body with a lead apron. Sounds pretty serious to me.
I'm in total agreement with you and most of the people on this blog.
Why were the agent's hands inside your underwear?

Yesterday, I was touched -- in my opinion, inappropriately -- by a TSA agent at LAX. I'm not going to talk about it in detail until I can speak with an attorney, but I've spent much of the last 24 hours replaying it over and over in my mind, and though some of the initial outrage has faded, I st...

Israel, one of the most hated countries in the world, protects its airports from all sorts of extremist attacks, and yet does not utilize any of the "high tech" methods that the US uses.
What do they do? They profile. From the moment you pull into the driveway of the airport, you are asked non-assuming, non-confrontational questions designed to register a response in someone who is up to no good. And it works.

Yesterday, I was touched -- in my opinion, inappropriately -- by a TSA agent at LAX. I'm not going to talk about it in detail until I can speak with an attorney, but I've spent much of the last 24 hours replaying it over and over in my mind, and though some of the initial outrage has faded, I st...